My original title was “Manchester School District Made Their Lying to Parents about Their Kids Even Worse – Policy JBAB,” but I don’t think that adequately conveys my feelings.
Just like Democrats that have demonized and reduced unborn babies to a null status, so is the Manchester School Board is demonizing and reducing Parents to a null status when it comes to their children.
Both the unborn babies and Parents have no standing. This is happening all over the country and is revealing its Hydra-head here in NH. Are you, Parents, going to be hip with this?
Given that we are a Dillon’s Rule State (which means that there has to be a State Law/RSA that authorizes “subdivision of a State” in order for any town, school board, water district, et al. to do anything.
Any town ordinance, any school board policy, any operation or procedure MUST have the ability to point to that NH RSA. And that is the nub of the problem in Manchester, Gilford, Exeter, and any other NH School District that has adopted Policy JBAB (Transgender and non-conforming).
Manchester School District is now being sued – they lied to a Parent about the transgender status of her child, and now she has to pick up the pieces that the school not only allowed but, so it seemed, to help push that child down the Transgender road. Now, Mom has to pick up the pieces that the District lied about (by omission – refused to inform the Parent).
And Mom has now sued the District over forcibly taking away HER responsibility in raising her child even as the District, with this policy, is saying:
We judge you to be an unfit Parent simply because you may not agree with how WE are raising her in this aspect of her life. Additionally, we judge you to automatically wanting to cause harm to this child under our care because you disagree with our sexual morality – you WILL cause harm so we have to protect the child by keeping you in the dark.
I find it really “coincidental” that just as this suit is winding up, the School District decided to “make a change” to the policy. If their purpose was to recognize “Oops, we screwed up,” they ended up making it worse by changing it from:
School personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student’s transgender status or gender-nonconforming presentation to others, including parents and other school personnel, unless legally required to do so or unless the student has authorized such disclosure.
To:
School personnel should not disclose information that may reveal a student’s transgender status or gender-nonconforming presentation to others unless legally required to do so or unless the student has authorized such disclosure. Nothing herein shall be construed to change the obligation of the school to take action when student safety is concerned.
And there you have it:
- “We give ourselves the authority to lie to Parents EVEN IF we cannot present an NH RSA that gives us that Power to lie.”
- We declare that the same Parents that have given their child to us to educate are a severe risk to the child.
Yet when there’s a real truancy case, is the Manchester District going to go after the child or the Parent (er, the latter, right after they call the Parent to see if they can give aspirin to said child).
In the aspirin example, State Law mandates that a Parent be called before administration.
In the first case, transgender status, ask the District if they can quote what RSA gives them the power to lie and take away the right of a parent to raise their child as they see fit?
When will School Boards start realizing their overreach has gone too far?
Or rather, do they even care as they, like all other Government agencies, continue to weave their way into more and more areas way beyond their original mandate.
And like all other Government agencies in doing so, they take YOUR Responsibilities and decisions from you, believing that they are superior to you…simply either because they either got one more vote than the other guy or get a Government payroll check that has your name on the front (as it’s your money).
Concord-based attorney Richard Lehmann is representing the mother in the lawsuit. He said he doesn’t expect the changes made to the policy to impact his client’s complaint.
“The proposal goes nowhere near far enough,” said Lehmann. “For the very simple reason it encourages school personnel to lie to parents. I can’t imagine a context where it’s appropriate for school personnel to lie to parents about their children.
Too bad, Rick – they certainly have. And no longer care what Parents believe as well.
(H/T: Union Leader)
